WARNING!
This talk may cause students
to stop waiting for opportunity
and start creating it.
Speaker • Author •
Creator of Connectworking™
The Talk That Gets Students... Talking
Jen Fort helps colleges and universities close the gap between academic qualifications and career opportunities by equipping students with the human connection skills and professional visibility they need to stand out to employers.
Through humor, stories and audience participation, Jen turns human connection from something students know they should do into something they feel confident actually doing.
Featured Keynote
Talk to Strangers
and other things not on the syllabus
How Connection Creates Opportunities You Can't Plan For
- In an AI-saturated job market, students can have the degree, the résumé and the right experience and still struggle with the human part of creating opportunity. Talk to Strangers takes students beyond awkward, transactional networking and shows them how curiosity, conversation and genuine connection can create opportunities they never could have planned for. Blending humor, hard-earned stories, audience interaction and Jen’s Connectworking™ philosophy, this high-energy keynote gives students a practical way to do what they already know they should be doing: talk to people. Students leave ready to:
- Start the conversation
- Build real relationships
- Create more chances
- Ideal for
- Career readiness • Senior-year programs • Student leadership • Career fairs • First generation career programming • Alumni/student events
INVISIBLE IS EXPENSIVE
Students can have the degree, résumé and experience and still be invisible to the people who could open their next door. Jen helps students become seen, remembered and connected without turning themselves into walking LinkedIn profiles.
What Happens In The Room
Stories ✦ Humor ✦ Participation ✦ Practical tools ✦ Zero death-by-PowerPoint
Students laugh, participate, practice starting conversations and actually connect with the people around them. They leave ready to use what they learned before they even leave campus.
Words From the Room
Jen brings authenticity, wisdom, and a depth that you can feel the moment she speaks. Jen doesn’t just write powerful words, she lives them. Thoughtful, genuine, and the real deal.
★★★★★
Kim Sorrelle
Podcast Host, The Kim Sorrelle Show
Jen is smart, witty, and down to earth. That combination spells relatability, and in Jen's case, it's relatability with wisdom. She's a wonderful guest.
★★★★★
Pat Wetzel
Podcast Host, A Bump in the Road
I just read your book today and it resonated so much with me. I absolutely loved it. Practical advice I can use immediately.
★★★★★
Jennifer G.
Career Coach
Let's get your students talking
Because good things happen when people T.A.L.K.